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Builders are spending 13.3% of home prices on buyer incentives—the highest since the 2009 crisis. “Major builders are now spending 13.3% of home prices on desperate buyer incentives—the highest since the 2009 financial crisis.” D.R. Horton reported a 10% year-over-year drop in Southeast sales. “This came after the business revealed that its Southeast division’s net …
by Michael Have you noticed that virtually all of our major cities are poorly run? I believe that the condition of our largest metropolitan areas is a warning. If we don’t straighten up, the entire country will soon resemble our core urban areas. Thankfully, there are millions of Americans that strongly support a return to …
Authored by Kurt Cobb via OilPrice.com, U.S. transformer wait times have ballooned from 50 to 127 weeks, crippling grid resilience in the face of wildfires, storms, or attacks. The Build America, Buy America Act and global demand for transformers have limited supply, with domestic production covering only 20% of needs. Experts warn that the grid …
by Michael Why did some of America’s most prominent billionaires regularly meet with Jeffrey Epstein even after he became a registered sex offender in 2008? In this article, I am going to discuss reporting that the Wall Street Journal has done over the years that proves that these meetings took place. Of course just because …
Authored by Charles Hugh-Smith via oftwominds, “Healthcare” grift, graft, fraud and financialized skims / scams will bankrupt the nation. I’ve been writing about America’s healthcare system for 18 years, emphasizing two enduring themes: 1) our lifestyle is unhealthy, with predictable consequences and 2) healthcare as it is currently configured will bankrupt the nation all by itself. …
*I am not saying she was the only one. There surely were other "Neera Tandens" in on the Biden shadow presidency — Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) June 25, 2025 The real scandal is the unchecked power of unelected bureaucrats who operate in the shadows, dictating policy without accountability. Tanden’s influence under Biden epitomizes the swamp Trump …
On any given morning, the fate of the global economy floats through a narrow stretch of water between Iran and Oman. The Strait of Hormuz may look unremarkable on a map, but it carries the economic lifeblood of nations nearly 20 million barrels of oil daily, representing one-fifth of global production. This waterway is more …
America’s most expensive housing market is right here in the bay area in Santa Clara county as far as large areas where people actually live. But even here the housing market is showing signs of cracking with inventory. Starting to pile up price is getting stale and more homes with the price cut than we …
It is literally 4x in the case of Denmark, thank god for the labor movement pic.twitter.com/MDagjTdBK5 — Henry (@HeSBK) June 10, 2025 China’s wealth distribution is shifting, and the numbers tell a story that few expected. The bottom half of China’s population now holds twice as much wealth as the bottom half of Americans. Denmark’s …
by Michael When you spend 30 trillion dollars that you do not have, it is easy to create an illusion of prosperity. In 1995, the nation was obsessed with the O.J. Simpson trial, “Toy Story” was the biggest movie of the year, the Sony Playstation made its debut in the United States, and Bill Clinton …
America’s most powerful banker has warned that the US economy faces a greater threat than a recession. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has warned that the threat of stagflation could still strike the US economy. Stagflation is the combination of economic stag-nation and in-flation. Prices continue to soar at the same time as unemployment rises …
Trump revives funding to America's main regime change NGO pic.twitter.com/FXkbv4cDZW — Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen) May 11, 2025
FASAB Statement 56: Understanding New Government Financial Accounting Loopholes https://missingmoney.solari.com/fasab-statement-56-understanding-new-government-financial-accounting-loopholes/
The Civil War wasn’t won with rifles. It was won with railroads, factories, iron foundries, and textile mills. The Union didn’t just outfight the Confederacy. It outproduced it. By the time the South realized the war wouldn’t be over in six months, it was already too late. The North had the iron, the arms, the …
S&P 500 at the Great Liberation Day Divide pic.twitter.com/mhRfSFfXyt — Michael J. Kramer (@MichaelMOTTCM) April 25, 2025 Bank Of America’s Hartnett – Sell U.S. stock rallies and buy the dip on everything else. — TT3 (@TradingThomas3) April 25, 2025 Technicians are pointing to a rare technical indicator called the "Zweig Breadth Thrust" which purportedly has …
They don’t handcuff you with chains anymore. They hand you keys to a house, a nice car, a college diploma, a daycare drop-off schedule, and a pile of plastic. It’s called the American dream. But if you look close, the locks are on the inside. Start with the house. Three thousand a month for shelter. …
Layoffs are expected to start within the next month. Also, massive loss of state and local tax revenues derived from tourist spending. Foreign tourism has fallen off a cliff. This is a $100B domestic industry largely concentrated in NYC, southern Florida, southern California, and Las Vegas. Hotels, airlines, restaurants, and tour guides are already feeling …
“American cattle rancher exposing that they’ve all been sold out, they’re at risk of being run out of business and your meat is being imported – 4 large mega corporations now own 85% of the entire industry – 2 of them are foreign owned – 1 of them is Chinese “50% or more of the …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rick Woldenberg thought he had come up with a sure-fire plan to protect his Chicago-area educational toy company from President Donald Trump’s massive new taxes on Chinese imports. “When he announced a 20% tariff, I made a plan to survive 40%, and I thought I was being very clever,” said Woldenberg, CEO …
Critics often claim that Trump’s tariff formula is flawed, arguing that tariffs alone won’t solve America’s trade imbalances. While tariffs are certainly a tool, the issue is more complex. Trump’s approach isn’t just about matching tariff rates between countries. His formula is based on addressing broader trade imbalances and forcing other nations to reconsider how …
by Martin Armstrong Vladimir Putin is one world leader who has studied history thoroughly. In a recent address, Putin discussed America’s plan to annex Greenland and explained that it is not some “extravagant plan” that Trump imagined. In fact, the United States had plans to annex Greenland going back to the 1860s. Secretary of State …
RFK is banning big pharma from television advertising. We are only one of two countries that allow this nonsense. We should have done this before Americans were hooked on pharmaceuticals. Is it too late? #BigPharma #RFK #television pic.twitter.com/h1JY0OOlU9 — TheDaddyTwins (@TheDaddyTwins) March 24, 2025 There goes 75% of their revenue. *Pharmaceutical companies have consistently been …
New show on X, 69X Minutes CONFIRMS the CIA has infiltrated and controls America’s teachers unions 🚨 “The CIA had created front companies and shell groups in order to influence all the different teachers unions. These are the largest teachers unions in the United States today” pic.twitter.com/wrKmtZIjSJ — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 24, 2025
Model me this: Dario expects full reciprocal tariffs to bump CPI to estimated +1.3% pts – about the same negative hit to GDP. Stagflation on top of bear market. So now tell me: Why are markets a buy here? https://t.co/2pRSGdxYRH — Samantha LaDuc (@SamanthaLaDuc) March 19, 2025 Breaking CNBC: Bank of America’s CEO Brian Moynihan …
Billionaires Jamie Dimon and Larry Fink have both begun to express their concern about the impact of Donald Trump’s policies on the US economy. JPMorgan Chase CEO Dimon, who has had a bumpy relationship with the President, warned this week that the uncertainty around tariffs is ‘not a good thing’ for business. This was a …
by Martin Armstrong Around 20,000 American troops stationed in Europe are set to return home after new orders from the commander-in-chief. Trump plans to reduce the American military’s overall presence in Europe by 20% and insist on “financial contribution” for any American troops stationed in Europe. As I said, Trump is a business man. He …
Robert F Kennedy Jr. has been praised for calling out medical and pharmaceutical companies who profit from people’s chronic illnesses, like obesity and diabetes. In an unearthed interview with Dr Phil, RFK Jr. slammed pharma giants for ‘making money from keeping us sick’ and promoting dependency on weight-loss drugs at a colossal cost to the …
